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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature

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1. A brief witty poem - often satirical.






2. A form of language use in which writers and speakers convey something other than the literal meaning of their words.






3. A tension created as the reader becomes involved in a story and when the author leaves the reader in doubt about what is coming next.






4. The voice an actor takes on to tell the story in a particular work.






5. A figure of speech in which a closely related term is substituted for an object or idea.






6. An accented syllable followed by an unaccented one.






7. A recurring pattern found in a work or works of literature; the pattern is usually representative of something else.






8. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.






9. The time and place of a story or play.






10. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.






11. The resolution of the plot of a literarture work.






12. Words spoken by one character in a play - either directly to the audience or to another character - that the other characters supposedly do not hear.






13. The difference between what a chracter says and what he/she means.






14. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.






15. An eight-line unit - which may constitue a stanza; or a section of a poem - as in the octave of a sonnet.






16. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.






17. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.






18. An imagined story - whether in prose - poetry - or drama.






19. The difference between what a character expects and what the reader knows will happen.






20. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.

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21. Then narrator is a character in the story and tells the reader his/her story using the pronoun 'I'.






22. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.






23. A long narrative poem that records the adventures of a hero.






24. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.






25. The turning point of the action in the plot of a play or story. It represents the point of greatest tension in the work.






26. Refers to how a piece of literature is written rather than to what is actually said.






27. The dictionary meaning of a word.






28. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.






29. A metrical foot represented by two stressed syllables.






30. A character struggles against some outside force.






31. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.






32. A strong pause within a line.






33. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.






34. An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one.






35. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.






36. Two unaccented syllables followed by an accented syllable.






37. A statement that seems to be contrdictory but is actually true.






38. A three-line stanza.






39. The selection of words in a literary work.






40. Poetry without a regular pattern of meter or rhyme.






41. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.






42. A character who contrsts and parallels the main character in a play or story.






43. The use of similar structure to express similar or related ideas - words - phrases - sentences - or paragraphs may be organized in a parallel structure.






44. A form of language in which writers and speakers mean exactly what their words denote.






45. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.






46. A subsidiary or subordinate or parallel plot in a play or story that coexists with the main plot.






47. A metrical foot with two unstressed syllables.






48. A moment of insightfulness when a character realizes some truth.






49. The main character of a literary work.






50. The character or force with which the protagonist conflicts.